Me in a Hornets felt Top Hat

 I doubt if Ascot is going to happen this year, but we always have black and grey Toppers in stock, personally I prefer the grey ones, more flattering.
I’d like to thank you for buying here online, it really helps in these strange and bad times. We all look forward to being back in the shops on the ‘Walk’ in the Royal Borough, back to Hornets International Club, Sunday lunch  time drinks on the wall and all the other good things that are Hornets. Look after yourselves and your loved ones, keep an eye on the elderly and those in need, give a cheer for the Health Workers everywhere
and remember we’ll get through this and out of it will come great and good things.
Keep fighting, keep caring, keep believing, keep well.
Best as always.
Bill Hornets

Happy Easter to Everybody Everywhere. Hornets Easter Bunny.

Hornets Heroines. Honor Blackman R I P. Cathy Gale in The Avengers with Patrick Macnee (above) and Pussy Galore with the first James Bond, a wonderful lady, a super actress, an Icon

H R H, keep well sir, we need you.

Vintage ties by Francesco Smalto, Lanvin Paris and Prochownick.

Brownie Ingham 1915, brother to Jack, Tom and Stafford Ingham the Jockey and Epsom Trainer. Framed photo 20”+16” (BHFC

Cheltenham Race’s. A smaller fitting vintage Keepers Tweed suit, with three buttons a ticket pocket and two vents, by W P Hine and Co. High Street Oxford. size chest 36 sleeve 24 waist 30 leg 28.

Hornets Visitor’s Book.

Hornets Visitor’s Book.
Lester Bowden of Epsom (Surrey) 1898. Closed on the 21.2.2020.
My grandmother lived in a big house on a hill overlooking Epsom, so I knew this long established traditional
Gentlemen’s Outfitters building well, as a boy I was fascinated by the huge spread eagle over the door.
By luck I came across this old unused customer’s order book marked LB 10, it is now our Visitor’s Book. Please sign it with any comment you care to make and a contact and become part of Hornets history.
(It’s at the back of the shop on the mantle piece above the fire place)

Detail of a 19th.c English sporting print, the rider wearing a heavy buttoned tail coat and long buttoned leggings. Mounted and framed 14”+15” (BHC)

A bespoke double breasted six button jacket, in black herringbone with two vents, by Anderson and Sheppard. size 45/46.